“With the release of Apple’s OS X for Intel x86-based
processors, OS X applications are being released in a different
‘format’ to run on these new processors. After reading about this
many times, a thought occurred to me: x86 executables (programs)
instead of PowerPC (the old processor type) executables means that
if one wanted to hypothetically try to run OS X applications on
Linux, it would no longer require an emulator. Then it occurred to
me.“I might be wrong, but I believe it should now be possible to
implement an OS X API on top of UNIX, exactly like what WINE did to
the Windows API…”